I have a leak on the right side of the engine, and it drips down the kickstand. I searched around and it seems like it is a fail crankcase seal that is causing the leak. I was wondering if you guys thought it was an easy DIY fix - considering I don't have all the necessary special tools such as the Universal Holder and Flywheel puller. Or should I just send it to the shop?

I picked up an engine for my Met recently since the old one was making a crazy sound (bent crank or bad bearing, parts alone to repair it myself came out to around $180+). New engine came from a 09 Ruckus with under 500 miles, $225 on eBay. You will easily be spending that at a shop, if not more. Of course, I lucked out and didn't get a bullshit motor someone was selling.

Total swap time was about three hours since I'm meticulous about things, and had to swap over a few items like the stator, flywheel, radiator, centerstand, and install a Ruckus swingarm. Swaps are cake, just remember where everything goes. Labels help if you're not familiar with the bike.

swapping a low mileage engine is the best thing to dobut if you want to keep your old engine here is how to do it

that seal is on a plateonce you take off the radiator, flywheel (special tool needed around $20) and stator there are 4 bolts holding on the platetake off the plate, and the seal is on that plateso you can remove the seal super easilywhen you order new seal, make sure to get the large o ring type seal for that plate even though most likely you wont need that seal, if you do screw it up removing it you have a new one ready to go

ive removed that plate on a couple engines and reused the o ring with no problems

My friends bike is leaking in same place, oil drips out the fan areafirst thing I thought was the crank sealbut its not that seal, or the large o ring seal or the plateive taken it apart like 4 times, even replaced the whole plate and seals from another enginestill drips oilmust be a crack in the engine I cant see

hard to trouble shoot because you can clean up everything but you cant start the bike with no stator or radiator on to look to see where the leak comes fromhas to be fully assembled so its impossible to see the leak